Sentences with phrase «dangerous pollution from»

I helped pass the Maryland Healthy Air Act, which is reducing dangerous pollution from Maryland's coal - fired power plants.

«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.

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They protect all Americans, especially the 6 million US children with asthma, from dangerous air pollution.

«The Governor has led the nation in combating climate change from banning fracking to one of the most aggressive clean energy standards in the country to closing down dangerous Indian Point to the single largest procurement of renewable energy in our nation's history and the first multi-state cap and trade system to lower carbon pollution,» said Cuomo campaign spokeswoman Abbey Fashouer.

The findings suggest that policymakers in Brazil and across the developing world should pay more attention to the negative health impact of pollution from fires that are often part of traditional farming techniques, even though the pollution doesn't usually reach levels considered dangerous by industrial standards.

The lion's share of human costs, however, comes not from accidents but from pollution, which makes fossilfuels the most dangerous form of energy generation (below).

And the White House opposes the measure because it «is contrary to the widely - accepted scientific consensus that GHGs are at increasingly dangerous concentrations... [and] would strip EPA of its authority to protect the public from GHG pollution.»

«This work highlights that pollution from dirty vehicles is not only dangerous to people's health, but could also have an impact on our natural environment and the economy.»

The fog mingled with high pollution was an extreme event «when the air quality goes from very poor to dangerous,» said Gufran Beig, a scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology.

«The Lancet report underscores the terrible consequences for human health if we don't start reducing the dangerous carbon pollution fueling climate change — and dramatic benefits for people the world over from taking action now,» echoed Kim Knowlton, senior scientist and deputy director of the Science Center at the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a release.

Even though outdoor air pollution can worsen the symptoms, indoor air pollution from household products, building materials (sometimes containing asbestos or formaldehyde), and tobacco smoke can be even more dangerous due to constant exposure.

How the branch of green chemistry is an initiative to protect our environment from dangerous effect of pollution.

The Trump administration has handed a rare victory to environmentalists, ordering two big corporations this week to pay $ 115 million to clean up a Texas toxic waste site that may have spread dangerous levels of pollution during flooding from Hurricane...

In fact, reports from the countryside reveal a dangerous epidemic of «cancer villages» linked to pollution from some of the very industries propelling China's explosive economy.

The challengers next claim is that EPA is completely barred from limiting power plants» dangerous carbon pollution because EPA has already used another part of the law — Section 112 — to curb the same plants» emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants.

In winter, especially, air pollution from diesel vehicles can reach dangerous levels and keep vulnerable children and seniors restricted indoors.

Recent legal decisions that Earthjustice has helped to secure have affirmed EPA's authority under the Clean Air Act to reduce climate pollution from vehicles and industrial facilities, but anti-environmental members of Congress and the dirty energy industry are determined to prevent any action to reduce dangerous climate pollution.

For more than a decade after Congress told it to curb dangerous mercury pollution from cement kilns across the nation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) refused to take action.

No, the point of this bill is to cap global warming pollution, put Americans back to work building out our clean energy future, and free us from our dangerous dependence on foreign oil.

«The bottom line for our nation is that cleaner power will cut harmful carbon pollution, protect our children from dangerous smog and other serious climate impacts, and help secure a safe and prosperous future.»

A cursory list might include: pollution of air, water and soil from billions of tons of toxic waste; declining biological and cultural diversity from the harvesting of natural resources; regulations that merely limit the poisoning of people and the environment; production and use of materials so dangerous they will require constant, costly vigilance from future generations; prosperity measured by activity not legacy.

In less than two minutes, the HEPA filtration system had scrubbed the air in the Passivhaus, bringing pollution levels from an extremely dangerous 1,000 µg / m3 to levels so low as to be undetectable (below the noise floor) by the instruments, allowing the test scientists to remove their gas masks and breathe fresh air while sitting inside a biome full of pollution.

The Clean Power Plan is a crucial step to curb the carbon pollution from power plants that drives dangerous climate change.

The number of days with dangerous pollution levels have dropped to about 50 a year, down from 160 at the height of Lafarge's operations.

WASHINGTON (October 27, 2015)-- Members of Congress have introduced resolutions of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act this week, seeking to block the Clean Power Plan, the landmark initiative to cut the dangerous carbon pollution from power plants fueling climate change.

«The Lancet report underscores the terrible consequences for human health if we don't start reducing the dangerous carbon pollution fueling climate change — and dramatic benefits for people the world over from taking action now.

Some of the highlights of the first day were the intervention of Lewis Pugh, UN Patron of the Oceans, live from the Antarctica who analysed the unprecedented speed of climate change in the polar regions, pollution of the waters and the dangerous sea level rise.

Furthermore, it is already a settled principle in international law that polluters should pay for their pollution, that nations should reduce their emissions to prevent dangerous climate change on the basis of «equity,» not national interest, and that nations should prevent their citizens from doing harm to people outside their national jurisdictional boundaries.

The states represented here today have long been working hard to sound the alarm, to put smart policies in place, to speed our transition to a clean energy future, and to stop power plants from emitting millions of tons of dangerous global - warming pollution into our air.»

It's not hyperbolic to say that these emissions are killing people — but with a relatively minimal investment from utilities, we could clean up this dangerous pollution.